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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. DAVID'S LAST DAYS AND THE CROWNING OF SOLOMON
1. Adonijah's Exaltation to be King
CHAPTER 1:1-27
_ 1. David's decrepitude (1 Kings 1:1)_
2. Adonijah's self-exaltation...
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LAST DAYS OF DAVID AND ACCESSION OF SOLOMON. This chapter with the
following has many analogies with the court history of David (2 Samuel
11-20). The narrative bears every sign of an authentic account...
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NOW.. special reading (Sevir, App-34), with three early printed
editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "thou". But
the _Massorah_ (App-30) says the scribes were misled in reading
_'...
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_Adonijah reigneth_ i.e. Is being set up for king, and will be
accepted, unless some word from David go forth to prevent it. With the
commander-in-chief, and the highpriest Abiathar on his side Adonij...
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B. BATHSHEBA'S IMPASSIONED PLEA 1:15-21
TRANSLATION
(15) Then Bathsheba went unto the king to the chamber (now the king
was very old and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the
king). (16) An...
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_GO AND GET THEE IN UNTO KING DAVID, AND SAY UNTO HIM, DIDST NOT THOU,
MY LORD, O KING, SWEAR UNTO THINE HANDMAID, SAYING, ASSUREDLY SOLOMON
THY SON SHALL REIGN AFTER ME, AND HE SHALL SIT UPON MY THRO...
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1:18 now, (b-8) Some read 'thou' for 'now.'...
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AN INTRIGUE FOR THE SUCCESSION
This chapter relates Adonijah's attempt to obtain the succession, its
defeat through the agency of Nathan, and the enthronement of Solomon.
The history contained in it i...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
ABOUT THE BOOKS OF 1 KINGS AND 2 KINGS
AUTHOR
We do not know who wrote the books. Some people say that Jeremiah
did. He lived just before Jerusa...
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וְ עַתָּ֕ה הִנֵּ֥ה אֲדֹנִיָּ֖ה
מָלָ֑ךְ וְ עַת
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AN EASTERN COURT AND HOME
1 Kings 1:1
"Pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness."
Ezekiel 16:49
A MAN does not choose his own destiny; it is ordained for higher ends
than his own persona...
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ADONIJAH'S REBELLION
1 Kings 1:5
"The king's word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest
thou?"- Ecclesiastes 8:4
THE fate of Amnon and of Absalom might have warned the son who was now
th...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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LEARNING THE KING'S WILL
1 Kings 1:15
The attempt of the usurper was met and defeated through Nathan's
prompt action, and by the concerted appeal that he and Bathsheba made
to the king, who seems to...
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The two Books of Kings appear in the Hebrew Bible as one. Together
they practically cover the whole period of kingly rule over the
ancient people. The first Book deals mainly with events centering
aro...
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And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou
knowest (i) [it] not:
(i) The king being worn with age, could not attend to the affairs of
the realm, and also Adonijah had many wh...
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_Of it. So that thy authority is also contemned. (Menochius)_...
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(15) And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the
king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the
king. (16) And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. An...
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The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the
priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and
dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people
desi...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
Before David's death the iniquity and ambition of a son whom he "had
not displeased at any time "led to the solemn proclamation of Solomon,
to whom G...
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AND NOW, BEHOLD, ADONIJAH REIGNETH,.... Has set up himself as king,
and is by some saluted as such; but lest it should be thought by David
that she suggested by this that he was guilty of the breach o...
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And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou
knowest [it] not:
Ver. 18. _And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth._] His ambition hath
turned off his obedience. Had his right to the...
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[ABISHAG. ADONIJAH HIS TREASON.]
1 Abishag cherisheth Dauid in his extreame age.
5 Adonijah, Dauids dearling, vsurpeth the kingdome.
11 By the counsel of Nathan,
15 Bath-sheba moueth the king,
22...
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ADONIJAH EXALTS HIMSELF
(vs.1-10)
Being 70 years old, David was near to death. He complained of the
cold, though well covered with blankets. His servants thought that a
young girl, a virgin, would he...
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11-31 Observe Nathan's address to Bathsheba. Let me give thee counsel
how to save thy own life, and the life of thy son. Such as this is the
counsel Christ's ministers give us in his name, to give al...
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This she adds, partly lest she should seem to accuse the king of
inconstancy and perfidiousness; and partly to aggravate Adonijah's
crime, from that gross neglect and contempt of the king which did
ac...
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1 Kings 1:18 Adonijah H138 king H4427 (H8804) lord H113 king H4428
know H3045 (H8804)
Adonijah -...
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CONTENTS: David's declining strength. Adonijah plots to seize kingdom.
Counter plot of Nathan and Bath-sheba. Solomon annointed.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Solomon, (Adonijah), Joab, Nathan, Bath-sheba,...
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1 Kings 1:2. _A young virgin._ This raised Abishag to the rank of a
betrothed wife. No doubt there were precedents for this conduct, but
history is silent on the subject.
1 Kings 1:5. _Then Adonijah,_...
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_Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself._
USURPATION
David is “old and stricken in years.” Round about him there are
certain proceedings which are almost always associated with the death
of...
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1 KINGS 1:1 The Reign of King Solomon. 1 Kings 1:1 describes the reign
of David’s son Solomon. Solomon was a great king when he obeyed God
and depended on God for wisdom, but his reign ended tragicall...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 1:16. BOWED AND DID OBEISANCE—The latter word denoting the
prostrate attitude customary in the East before kings.
1 Kings 1:21. SHALL BE COUNTED OFFENDERS—Cou...
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EXPOSITION
THE REVOLT OF ADONIJAH AND THE ACCESSION OF SOLOMON.—The first
chapter of this book is occupied with the accession of Solomon and
with the circumstances which preceded, marked, and followed...
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Tonight let's turn to First Kings beginning with chapter one.
First Kings, of course, is just the continuation of the history of the
kings of Judah and Israel. First and Second Samuel are taken up pre...
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1 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 1:24; 1 Kings 1:27; 1 Kings 1:5; 2 Samuel 15:10;